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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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tsm server command 'perform libaction' to use tape drive serial number as tape drive name

would like to be able to use the perform libaction command to define new/updated drive/path configuration and use the device serial number as the device name. perform libaction library1 action=define device=/dev/smc0 drivename=serialno
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Backup Stgpool to Limit Processing per Node or Filespace

With TSM 6.4, deduplication works to limit the amount of data stored for a TSM server and its clients. It is however, limited to the stgpool layer. If one wants to do 'backup stgpool' or 'replicate node' (exclusively), it's not possible to tier th...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

reconcile volumes behaviour with server delete grace times

The behavior of the reconcile volumes command should be changed to take into account server deletion grace time settings. Reconcile volumes command should not report errors when archive files for deleted source virtual volumes are still present on...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

How much space is needed.

When TSM issues ANR0534W size estimate exceedes stg, it would bee very nices if the estimated size was showen too.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

Password re-use

Passwords used for interactive accounts different from the previous 12 passwords.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Linux Storage Agent needs to be broken out of Server install

Installing the TSM LANFREE agent in linux is cumbersome due to the size of the Server package, the need to unpack it, and the installer. If possible, please break it out of the TSM server package and put it into an RPM format to allow easier insta...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Implement TSM LDAP using non-secured SSL/TLS

Our organization are forbidden from using secure LDAP due to that stopping the ability for Information Assurance Agents to scan LDAP traffic. The SSH/TLS option is not turned on and cannot be turned on. Port 636 (SLDAP) is not authorized. Will nee...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Parallell readahead from dedup storage pool volumes

Very slow performance doing undedup of data from dedup storagepools.Fetching data in parallel from sequential volumes to single destination for example tape.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

allow deduplicated tape copy pools for storage pool backup purposes

Currently, only FILE pools can be deduplicated and TAPE pools can not. The reason is that a restore from a deduplicated TAPE pool would be unuseable due to excessive number of tape mounts. We understand this. However, we would still like to see th...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Admin session timeout

There should be an effective method of automatically cancelling idle administrator CLI sessions to the TSM server. "setopt adminideltimeout" seems to set the time an idle session can remain active and the session is cancelled when that time expire...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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